Sign o' the Times: Pizza Climbs the Pop Charts as Vegetable

Speaking of signs... Before we all stuffed our bodies with Thanksgiving last week, Congress declared pizza a vegetable. Only not really. Tomato paste, which is obviously associated with pizza, was declared a vegetable. We'll leave it to the Washington Post to sort out the nutritional madness. Meanwhile, in San Antonio,...

By Nick Rallo

November 29, 2011

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Speaking of signs...

Before we all stuffed our bodies with Thanksgiving last week, Congress declared pizza a vegetable. Only not really. Tomato paste, which is obviously associated with pizza, was declared a vegetable. We'll leave it to the Washington Post to sort out the nutritional madness. Meanwhile, in San Antonio, where the above photo was taken (via Reddit's San Antonio page), Pizza Hut is enjoying Congress's findings.

Sign o' the times, for sure.

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